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  • January 14, 2011 at 5:16 am in reply to: RN cvarriers on Yankee station #2014255
    Bager1968
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    A6A
    Won competition January 1958; first flight 19 April 1960; combat squadron deliveries from October 1963; first combat sortie 1 July 1965

    Buccaneer
    S.1 (Gyron Jr.)
    Won competition July 1955; first flight 30 April 1958; combat squadron deliveries from July 1962; out of front-line service by the late 1960s

    S.2 (Spey)*
    First flight 17 May 1963; combat squadron deliveries from October 1965

    * While discussions on the Mk.2 Buccaneer had begun in late 1959, conversion work did not start until January 1962, being completed in May 1963.

    Three of the test aircraft flew to the US in the summer of 1965 to perform hot weather and carrier trials on the USS LEXINGTON.

    January 14, 2011 at 4:57 am in reply to: RN cvarriers on Yankee station #2014259
    Bager1968
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    Spey
    Mk 101 (Buccaneer S.2) 11,030 lb.s.t.; SFC .63
    Mk 201 (FG.1 Phantom) 12,550 lb.s.t. (20,515 lb.s.t.); SFC .63/1.95

    TF41
    -2 (A-7E) 15,000 lb.s.t. (*est. 24,519 lb.s.t.); SFC .647/?

    TF30-412 (F-14A) 12,350 lb.s.t. (20,900 lb.s.t.); SFC .63/2.78

    TF30-100 (F-111F**) 15,000 lb.s.t. (25,100 lb.s.t.); SFC .64/2.45

    * keeping the same dry:reheated thrust ratio

    ** a naval version of this “ultimate TF30” would be virtually the equivalent of an afterburning TF41… except for the higher reheated fuel consumption, and the continued compressor stall issues that plagued all versions of the TF30 throughout its service life.

    January 14, 2011 at 4:26 am in reply to: F135 vs F136 #2363831
    Bager1968
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    Those numbers are very conservative, as the F-35 has demonstrated over 41,000lbs hover thrust, not to mention this story-

    http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=defense&id=news/asd/2010/08/27/01.xml&headline=Pratt

    Both the post you quoted that image from and the chart itself are from 2006 (note the date at the bottom of the chart: 23 January 2006, and the date of the post: 20 November 2006).

    Yes, this is a resurrected thread that had been dead for just over 4 years!

    January 14, 2011 at 3:46 am in reply to: Pearl Harbour #1088091
    Bager1968
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    From 3 different people I recently got one that shows a 3-carrier formation of USN supercarriers (legit) and then shows the fake planes from the movie “Stealth” and claims they are real and in service!

    January 13, 2011 at 2:43 am in reply to: J-20 Black Eagle – Part 3 #2319962
    Bager1968
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    At the risk of seeming frivolous in this death-match of a thread…

    http://www.pnw4runners.com/pics/banhammer_forecast.gif

    Or so it seems from the continued name-calling despite our very patient Moderator’s repeated warnings.

    January 12, 2011 at 2:35 am in reply to: J-20 Black Eagle – Part 3 #2322055
    Bager1968
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    Don’t want to get into a J-20 vs whatever fighter fight, but it definitely is one hell of a fighter:

    Really… what’s its top speed? Its turn radius? Its G-rating? Its weapons load? Its installed radar? Its other avionics? Its radar cross-section compared to other similar aircraft?

    It is “one hell of a looker“, I’ll grant you that… but no one outside of the PLAAF knows anything about how it really is as a fighter!

    January 12, 2011 at 2:25 am in reply to: supporting old military aircraft #2322057
    Bager1968
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    Which is why there is a thriving multinational industry dedicated to “after-market” upgrades of old aircraft.

    Virtually no nation has to keep old aircraft flying by themselves… there is lots of shared effort going on.

    Look at all the aircraft upgrades done for air forces worldwide by Israel.

    An Italian example: Galileo Avionica’s FIAR Grifo X-band radar replacing the Emerson APG-159s in Singapore & Brazilian F-5Es, Pakistani Mirage IIIs & F-7s, as well as being original equipment in the Italio-Brazilian AMX (one radar going in fighters built by Italy/Brazil, France, China, & the US), etc.

    January 11, 2011 at 1:09 am in reply to: Unidentified item quiz no 1 #1090210
    Bager1968
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    Tempting to think that ‘LUFT’ has something to do with aircraft but isn’t ‘COMPR. LUFT’ more likely to be an abbreviation for compressed air in German?:diablo:

    Except that the rest is in English, and uses english units (“tare weight 15 lbs 1 oz”, etc), while Germany was using the metric system.

    January 11, 2011 at 1:02 am in reply to: US DOD highlights sustainable defense budget #2324720
    Bager1968
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    Revive the FB-22!

    http://www.air-attack.com/page/26/FB-22-Fighter-Bomber.html

    January 11, 2011 at 12:56 am in reply to: J-20 Black Eagle – Part 3 #2324723
    Bager1968
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    Trying to “put the whammy” on it via associating it with the F-20 Tigershark?

    😀

    January 9, 2011 at 10:24 pm in reply to: Pensacola NMNA new annex #1091084
    Bager1968
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    Nice to see an A-6E in display with the AN/AAS-33A DRS turret in place.

    Did you look into the laser windows, and if so, is the sensor package inside, or is it an empty shell?

    January 9, 2011 at 8:43 am in reply to: UH-60Ms for CSAR-X #2327460
    Bager1968
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    Yep… VXX was a USN project (for the USMC).

    January 9, 2011 at 8:41 am in reply to: supporting old military aircraft #2327464
    Bager1968
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    A lot of parts can be copied and made by nearly any competent metals fabricator, and others can be replaced by locally-designed and manufactured components (see South Africa during the 1960s-1980s, and Iran since 1980).

    January 9, 2011 at 8:33 am in reply to: Hand Startable WW2 aircraft #1091809
    Bager1968
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    Some (perhaps all?) DC-3/C-47’s could be hand-cranked, I’ve spoken in the past with an ex-RAF fitter who loathed the task!

    Not so much for starting as for turning the crankshaft so the mechanical oil pump would replace the oil that had drained out of the cylinders on top of the engine, and so that the excess oil that had collected in the bottom cylinders could be drained out.

    That way, the engine would start more easily (all cylinders fire quickly), and would experience less starting wear.

    This was a problem with many radials, but not, I understand, with all (some manufacturers found a way to minimize this issue).

    January 8, 2011 at 2:45 am in reply to: Chinese J-XX/14/20 p.2 #2328843
    Bager1968
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    Notice that too, what function does this twist perform in aerodynamics?

    Wingtip vortex reduction (low RCS version of the up-swept winglets on airliners).

    Reduces drag, and minimizes tip flutter during hard maneuvering/turbulent air flight.

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